A Close Shave (1996)
Directed by Nick Park
Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.
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For instance, the chicken pie machine, a scary mass of rivets, gears, and levers, is surprisingly similar to the sheep-to-sweater machine in Wallace & Gromit's A Close Shave.
(I have a toy model of one sitting in front of me as I write this, so, yes, I'll bet you do.) Park had already nailed three Academy Awards in the animation category for his work on two Wallace & Gromit shorts -- 1996's A Close Shave and 1994's The Wrong Trousers -- as well as an earlier work from 1991, the sublime talking-animal gag Creature Comforts.
Nick Park has already won three Oscars for his short animated films Creature Comforts , The Wrong Trousers , and A Close Shave , the latter two starring the Wallace and Gromit characters.
Beginning with the Academy Award-winning 1989 short Creature Comforts, and through his epic Wallace and Gromit mini-adventures The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, Park has filled the mouths of his staunchly English, valiantly middle-class players clay-animated penguins and sheep as well as ladies and gents with soulful choppers: In good times and bad, the set of an Aardman jaw speaks volumes as said penguin, sheep, dog, woman, or man adapts with tea-and-toast-loving civility to unpredictable (and usually daunting) fate.
Park is the creator of the immortal Wallace and Gromit, the man and his dog who star in "The Wrong Trousers" and "A Close Shave."
Its creators, claymation masters Nick Park (creator of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit shorts The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave) and Peter Lord, have described their protagonists as "people in chicken suits."